Hyrne

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hyrne

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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hyrne
f. A horn, corner, angle :-- Hyrne angulus, Wrt. Voc. 80, 73. Ðæt wæter ðe man ða bán mid áþwoh binnan ðære cyrcan wearþ ágoten on ánre hyrnan the water that the bones were washed with in the church was poured away in a corner, Swt. A. S. Rdr. 100, 162. Tó ðæs hegges hyrnan to the corner of the hedge, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iii. 423, 18. Tó mórmǽde norþ hyrnan, 449, 19. On strǽta hyrnum in angulis platearum, Mt. Kmbl. 5, 6. On ðæs weofodes hyrnan super cornua altaris, Ex. 29, 12: Leper quatuor arcæ angulos, Past. 22, 1; Swt. 169, 21. [A. R. hurne: R. Glouc. hurne: Prompt. Parv. hyrne angulus, see note, p. 241: Chauc. herne: Piers P. huirne, hirne, hyrne: O. Frs. herne: Icel. hyrna one of the horns or points of an axe-head; a mountain peak.] v. horn. -hyrne,hyrne

Related words: 4, 18: 8, 15. On ða feówer hyrnan ðære earce

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